Housing is an Environmental Issue

Ask anyone who has tried to look for rental housing lately and they’ll tell you that housing in Humboldt is expensive. Humboldt, like California generally, suffers from a housing affordability crisis brought on chiefly by failing to build enough housing. Our housing crisis is an environmental issue and local green groups are working to support new infill housing development. On this week’s episode, Gang Green talks to housing policy experts Lulu Michelson and Brian Heaton about why California has failed to build enough housing and what policy changes can be made to support housing creation.

Clockwise from top left: An artist’s rendering of the proposed housing complex to replace a parking lot at 8th & G in Eureka; A diagram of proposed standards for denser, walkable development in the McKinleyville Town Center; A proposed people-friendly streetscape from Arcata’s Gateway Area Plan.
Larry Glass
Larry Glass is Executive Director and Board President of the NEC, and President of Safe Alternatives for our Forest Environment (SAFE) in Trinity County.